Means for facilitating the withdrawal of cigarettes or the like from their cases



A. McKELLAR.

MEANS FOR FACILITATING THE-WITHDRAWAL 0F CIGARETTES OR .THE LIKE FROM THEIII GAS ES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12. 1919.

1,347,816 Patented July 27, 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1920.

Application filed. June 12, 1919. Serial No. 303,646.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER McKnL- LAB, of 27 Cathcart street, Greenock, Scotland, watchniaker and jeweler, have invented certain new and useful or Improved Means for Facilitating the \Vithdrawal of Cigarettes or the like from Their Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cigarette and cigar cases of the type where a frame is provided inside, on which the cigarettes or cigars are carried and on the opening of which the frame assumes an upright or vertical position, and the object of my invention is to simplify and cheapen the construction of such as well as to prevent the cigarettes or cigars being in any way damaged as they are so liable to be where springs are employed.

The invention consists in the introduction of a magazine or independent container composed of a light metal framework for holding the cigarettes or the like in position within the case. The cigarettes or the like are placed in two rows within the magazine with the free ends of one row slightly in advance of its adjacent row. The magazine is hinged to the case. The pin which connects the two leaves or members of the case at the joint also passes through eyes of a partition plate forming an extension of the magazine. A pair of jointed levers after the manner of toggle joints connects the rear portion of the magazine to the inner edge of the two leaves of the case in such a manner that when the case is opened the magazine automatically assumes an erect position, presenting unobstructedly the ends of the cigarettes for easy withdrawal.

In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into effect, I have hereunto appended one sheet of drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the case for containing cigarettes and the like made in accordance with and embodying my invention with the case opened and the cigarettes presented for withdrawal.

Fig. 2 is a section cutting through one of the leaves of the case taken on the line a, b, Fig. 1, and showing the magazine in side elevation and the case in the opened position.

.the case to the jointed levers I, J, K, L

drawal. A pair of jointed levers have their vertical ends I, J, pivotally attached to the rear external wall E of the magazine and their horizontal ends K, L, pivotally attached, the one K to the leaf or side A, and a the other L to the leaf or side B of the case; these levers are fulcrumed at M and A partition plate 0 forming a downward extension 0 of the central plate aforesaid of the magazine is pivotally connected 7 to the hinge joint C of the case, Figs. 2 and 3. The magazine is formed oftwo rear compartments Q, It. The compartment Q has a false bottom or termination S. Due to this arrangement the cigarettes or the like in the row T protrude farther from the magazine in the horizontal plane than in the row U, Figs. 1 and 2. The opening of aforesaid exerts a uniform strain on the magazine, bringing it into the central position as seen. The usual elastic retaining band V is employed.

Claims:

1. In the means for the withdrawal of cigarettes and the like from their cases, a magazine composed of light metal, rear wall part lateral sides, canopy and bottom,

a central partition plate constituting two chambers or compartments of unequal length, said plate having a downward extension in order to connect it conjointly with the hinge of the case, jointed levers connected each with the rear Wall of magazine, and

one to one leaf of the case, and the other to the opposite leaf, operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shown on the drawings.

2. A cigarette case comprising a pairof zine pivotally connected to the pivot axis of pair of the hin ve connection between the leaves, a

iwers pivotally connected to one end of the magazine, and a pair of levers piv0t ally connected at their outer ends to the said leaves, the inner ends-of the last named levers being pivotally connected to the first named'ievers;

In witness whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALEXANDER McKELLAR.

Witnesses: r

V JOHN LIDDLE,

' JOHN FRAIN LIDDLE. v 

